Steve,
If you evaluate
Options[Cell] // TableForm
you will obtain a long list of options that control how a cell behaves and
looks. Among these options are LineSpacing, ParagraphSpacing and
ParagraphIndent. Look these up in Help.
Use Shift-Ctrl-E to open up your text cell and then add these options at the
end to get what you want.
Better yet, after experimenting, you may want to modify your style sheet to
define your own style of a text cell.
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
> From: Steve Gray [mailto:stevebg at adelphia.net]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> My notebook has big sections of text explaining what's going on in the
> math. I notice that Mathematica randomly indents paragraphs and numbered
> sections in a most arbitrary way, and that I can't usually fix
> these arbitrary
> adjustments.(Format>Style is Text.)
> Could someone provide a description of what it's trying to
> do, and how to get
> around it, or at least how to utilize it effectively?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
>